[Sca-cooks] Artichoke Pie

[Terry Decker]

Mace doesn't completely wrap the nutmeg.  There are holes through it.  It
looks something like an octopus wrapped around a large shellfish with some
of the shell showing.  By seperating the place where the legs join, you can
remove the mace almost intact, although I gather it is easier still if you
split the mace.  Whole mace is mace that has been removed from the nutmeg
and dried in large pieces as opposed to being crushed or gorund.

Bear

>Other way around. Nutmeg is the whole nut, mace is the papery part that
>covers it inside the actual shell. Lots more nutmeg than mace. I have no
>idea how you would have a whole mace, and you wouldn't want a whole nutmeg,
>they're dangerous in that amount, unless you are serving a huge crowd.
>(Back to the Herbal discussion... I know we though we'd escaped that, but
>here we are!)
>
>Perhaps all the mace of a whole nutmeg?
>
>Anne
>